Partner pay spreads continue to expand in Big Law. But not every firm is stretching the gap between its highest- and lowest-paid equity partners.
The firms with the lowest equity partner pay ratios have mostly kept the distance short for the last couple of years, at roughly 4-to-1 or less, according to ALM survey data for financial years 2022 and 2023. The group includes Butler Snow (4-to-1); Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft (4-to-1); Goulston & Storrs (4-to-1); Bond, Schoeneck & King (3.8-to-1); Bracewell (3.6-to-1) and Morris, Manning & Martin (3-to-1).
